A pre-history story by a Belarusian author about a teenage girl whose life is a whirlwind of talent, illness, love and surrounding events. A tight knot of emotions that will eventually turn into power.

‘This novel is consistently witty, highly associative, with elements of dystopia, funny and bitter, sarcastic and sometimes cynical, imbued with humor, irony and, most importantly, self-irony, which is the best means of self-defense, will not let you get bored. And as you know, long live any genre, except the sad one!’ Vladimir Orlov

These were all just ghosts of the night, phantoms of the mind wandering in the dark. And although he had to see a lot of them and even once during a lonely walk to face Satan himself, the daylight always overcame all this devilry, and then he could lead an ordinary, pleasant life without fear of the forces of the other world.

The very first novel of the writer - ‘The Former Son’ - tells about a young man who was injured in a terrible stampede on Nemiza and was in a coma for 10 years. He was looked after by his grandmother, who, in turn, tried to see the world through the eyes of her grandson, to tell him everything when he recovered. She tells, and the reader remembers what Belarusians experienced during that time:...

The novel begins with the events of June 23, 1941, when the offensive of the German army launched another wave of the fight against spies in the USSR. The work immerses the reader in the atmosphere of the 1930s and is based on the materials of the investigative case of the first director of the Moscow crematorium, Pyotr Ilyich Nesterenka, through whose testimony and diaries one can trace the...